Re: Happy to be a Tech Writer?

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

I suspect that many of us who find ourselves in this position
are working in environments where there may not *be* 
"Eng-Test and QA and integration support people" who are
separate entities from whatever team the writers report to.
When I was an engineer in a big aerospace company with 
Test, QA and Systems Integration groups, we engineers and 
the few writer/editors who supported us seldom knew much
more about the "overall product" than our particular part
and how it interacted with its next highest level assembly;
in the 30-person company I currently work for, "test, QA 
and integration support" are performed by a team of...
30 people.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kevin McLauchlan" <kmclauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> I find it fascinating that a number of you seem to work in companies where
> the writer knows more about the overall product than the Eng-Test and QA and
> integration support people. 

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